Ch. 63 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 63
(Senate Bill 811)

AN ACT concerning

Consolidated Land Preservation Act of 1990

FOR the purpose of establishing within the Department of Natural Resources the Land
Trust Grant Fund to be administered by the Maryland Environmental Trust;
specifying the purposes for which the Fund may be used; authorizing the
Department of Natural Resources to adopt certain regulations; requiring the
Maryland Environmental Trust to report annually on the Land Trust Grant Fund
to the Governor, certain committees of the General Assembly, and the
Department of Fiscal Services; allowing certain uses of State acquisition funds
under Program Open Space; authorizing the Department of Natural Resources to
enter into certain agreements to acquire property interests from a land trust in for
the State, subject to approval by the Board of Public Works; establishing within
the Department the Bay Access Areas Fund to be used to acquire sites that
provide public access to a body of water; prohibiting the Department from making
expenditures from certain funds until certain committees of the General Assembly
have approved the release of the funds; altering the time period for periodic
revision to a local recreation and parks master plan; requiring that certain
Legislators be given an opportunity to comment on certain State acquisition
projects; requiring the Department to provide certain Legislators an opportunity
to review and comment on certain proposed local projects and certain revised
local plans; requiring a local governing body to use part of its Program Open
Space acquisition funds for a local advance option and purchase fund; authorizing
a local governing body to use part of its Program Open Space funds for a local
land trust grant fund; authorizing a local governing body to enter into certain
agreements to acquire property interests from a land trust, subject to certain
approvals; providing for reversion to the State of certain local Program Open
Space funds if not encumbered within a certain time; altering the time period for
periodic revisions to the State Comprehensive Outdoor Recreation and Land
Preservation Plan; requiring the plan to identify and recommend for State
acquisition efforts certain areas to be targeted; requiring the Office of Planning to
exercise authority as the head agency in coordinating the State's land preservation
efforts; altering the required allocation in the State budget of certain transfer tax
revenues; permitting the use of Special Fund revenues for salaries and related
expenses necessary to administer Program Open Space; prohibiting certain false
statements; imposing certain criminal penalties for certain violations; defining
certain terms; requiring certain reports; generally relating to the Land Trust
Grant Fund; making the provisions of this Act severable; generally relating to the
Advance Option and Purchase Fund and the Bay Access Areas Fund; generally
relating to certain required appropriations from certain transfer tax revenues; and
generally relating to Program Open Space and land preservation.

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